I think you're right about Hillary's likability which partly explains why her policies seem to be an awkward attempt to be right, smart and popular all at the same time.
I think you underestimate her as a candidate, though. Depending on who runs against her, she may stand or fall based on her likability, but that assumes someone gets a fair chance to run against her. Politics isn't an equal access contest, and you can be damn sure her connections and decades spent raising money for the DNC have bought her the kinds of favors and brass-knuckled leverage that might dissuade potential challengers from making a run at her.
I think she got a little blindsided by Obama in 2008 but also was willing to cede to him for both semi-principled reasons involving party loyalty but also for strategic reasons knowing she could resurrect her campaign easily in the next go-round.
This is her last shot now, and I think she's willing -- and able -- to call in all her markers, twist every arm and squeeze every dollar she can to get into office. Lousy personality or not, nobody else in the Democratic party has the juice to challenge her, no matter how likable they may be.
Bernie Sanders is a side show, hitting all the progressive talking points but can never attract the donor dollars for that reason. It would be hilariously fun if he would take it just a little crazier and at least feint a touch of right-wing populism on guns or immigration (the latter I think he did recently with regard to immigration and wages). I think there's an awful lot of tea partiers who hate wall street but love their guns more who might find a little honest Yankee common sense appealing.
Trump is just a clown indulging his ego. He probably believes his own bullshit, too, but he's like a sports-loving millionaire who buys a pro team to indulge his ego. Trump is just spending money to promote Trump. I also think he's potentially dangerous -- you don't do what Trump did in NY business and real estate (with Trump's personality to boot) without some brains and a lot of balls. Trump is a survivor in a city of pretty heavy predators, from Wall St. to Gracie Mansion to the unions and the garbage and building trades. He's got a zillion dollars with no strings attached and if he's not afraid of the city, the Gambinos or pretty much anyone else.
I'd see this less as a chance to charge more than a means of charging less.
With all smartphones offering great real-time navigation, it's a lot harder to upsell an expensive nav package for most cars. Even cars without nav seem to have basically the same touch screen even if the nav software is turned off. It's just economies of scale in production and assembly.
I think makers are looking to both improve what they have and make it cheaper and/or standard. And considering the consortium that bought them, they're mostly in the market segment where they have to offer nav on everything but the stripped down model nobody wants. Offering better maps for less licensing cost merely helps them get a tech edge over competitors in the same market segment.
Even among otherwise less luxury marques, the in-cabin technology package is almost the differentiating feature set.
As much as I dislike the NY Times trend towards posting videos, it was interesting to see their review of the new Volvo XC90 with a 4 cylinder engine that's supercharged AND turbocharged. IIRC the review says its rated at nearly 300 HP.
It's a large and fairly heavy car, so I don't think combined mileage was more than 25 MPG but it's definitely an improvement over the 4.4L V8 (my S80 with the same engine gets about 17 combined).
The only thing I'd worry about is if they're extracting Fast and Furious style horsepower from 4 cylinder engines is that they'll get Fast and Furious levels of engine life.
Frankly, I don't think Tesla needs to play the bootlegger-and-baptist game with fuel economy regulations to be competitive with ICE carmakers, they just need to be price and performance competitive within their model segments. At the oligarch country club where I do some work, I've seen a lot more Teslas and a lot fewer new S550s and my guess is that most of the drivers don't give a shit about the fuel cost or environmental impact of what they drive. They want performance and look-at-me status, and if it gives them an environmental cachet with their daughters' bohemian ivy league friends, so much the better,
The bigger challenge will be providing a car the plebes find competitive at the $30k mark. For tofu-eating yoga types, this won't be hard. They would drive a Prius or a Fit anyway. It's the Honda Pilot or Santa Fe buyers they need to appeal to and provide a competitive alternative.
I heard an interview with a professor on the "concerned" side and he made some interesting points about AIs. The "non-risk" side of the debate seems soley focused on the strong, human-like AI while ignoring potential risks of weak AIs that are increasingly used for things like stock trading.
Another one was that potentially dangerous AI doesn't necessarily need full autonomy to do damage. A senior banker that gets analytics/reports from trading software may be the actual actor why the danger comes from assuming the machine generated advice is the right advice. It's not hard to assume that human could be misled into performing actions that have bad outcomes because it believes the advice was right or accurate.
I wonder, too, if its possible that there could be a meta-AI. That is,an AI that isn't a single/clustered system under the control of a common piece of software, but AIs whose effect is cumulative because their knowlege inputs and actions span a common environment and allow for a feedback loop among them. Stock trading is a great exmaple because you have a common market, each AI knows something about the other AIs positions in the market and they all know about the overall status in the market.
I also wonder if our obsession with strong, HAL9000-style AI appearances will mean we won't be able to recognize many potentially dangerous emergent AIs because they don't fit the image of a strong AI.
It sounds, though, like it requires the client to use an upstream proxy to make it work, otherwise the endpoints would need to be enabled for this, too.
Even in the SMB world, it's becoming common for clients to want multiple ISP connections. Usually this gets implemented within the firewall or with a link balancer device that allows for various failover or balancing schemes. Any one client TCP session stays on one link, though, so two 10Mbps links never delivers 20 Mbps to any one TCP session.
I'm not sure this would be that much of a benefit on a phone, since most are single-app focused and most apps rely on a single stream, which is I guess why they use multipath TCP.
Doesn't sound like a porn plague, it sounds like puberty.
12-13 year olds going through puberty, their hormones turned up to 11, obsessed with sex in some manner or other? Unsure of feelings they have about sex, worried they think about it too much (or not enough), all the anxieties of youth and social/sexual roles?
This is somehow new and driven by online porn?
When I was that age we were obsessed with porn, too. Everybody knew whose dad had a skin mag, some had their own secret stash. My friend and I on our way to junior high in 1978 found 3 porno mags in the street. Two were issues of Hustler and one was called "Double Cunt Fucker", a hardcore mag that had penetration, a 3-way and jiz shots. Probably average for what's online.
The problem with porn is that it's only appealing because society can't get a grip on sexuality.
Perhaps competitive prices coupled with perceived quality (and good experience on other platforms) led to these drives being selected by more knowledgeable or performance oriented people.
These drives then got pushed harder or in ways more likely to expose the bugs, leading to a perception that they were unreliable under Linux.
All the HVAC techs I've ever talked to have told me that it's better to have the compressor run continuously than it is to short cycle it.
I had new AC put in about 10 years ago and if cleaning the A coil is something that's supposed to get done, they sure don't do the sheet metal like its something that's supposed to be done.
My A coil failed (I think they used a non-R134a coil) after two years and the guy had to do a lot of sheet metal surgery to get the new coil in.
It'd be interesting to know what Sharp plans for the power input. I would suspect the market starts to shrink dramatically for input voltages over 48V because pretty much all battery arrays are 48V or lower and AFAIK (which isn't very far) only the newest solar installs run at high DC voltages.
I'd guess that this would be a 24-48V system (highest common DC voltage in battery arrays) and lets say you have 6 hours runtime after dark (pure battery load), you're burning 4000 watt hours of power or 80+ amps @ 48V and 160+ amps at 24v.
The daily use PowerWall is only 7kw and I'd guess a summer of that kind of use would put a serious dent in its lifespan.
The only thing I can think of is that the Sharp DC A/C is designed for sucking direct from larger solar panel installs during the sunny days and really isn't practical to use for night cooling without some kind of other prime energy source (generator, grid, etc).
Is this not just a change in power input but a substantially more energy efficient air conditioner, too?
I've seen small A/C systems for cars and marine applications that can run off DC power, but they're usually pretty small which helps cut the overall power consumption. In marine applications they also have the advantage of being able to use sea water to move the heat versus a fan and coils in open air.
One of Sharp's smallest split system units has 8500 BTU of cooling with an EER of 13 which is roughly 650 watts. That's about 14 amps @ 48v, 27 @ 24, and a battery sucking 54 amps at 12v (run with welding cable).
8500 BTU might cool a room reasonably well, but its not going to provide whole-house cooling, either, and would require a pretty large battery array to run off battery. It might make sense for some kind of supplemental cooling setup where it ran direct off solar panels.
....what they're watching on TV in those amateur porn movies.
Honestly, I don't know how they can go at it like that with the TV droning on in the background. It makes me nuts that I can't tell what they're watching, too.
Whaddya bet that the variation in video formats got left in as some kind of poor DRM to act as a last-chance method to stop people from viewing videos from other regions?
because in Murica we are incapable of having reasonable discussion regarding guns.
"Reasonable discussion" usually just means "my ideas are reasonable, and yours aren't, and as long as you're disagreeing with my ideas, you're being unreasonable."
At a shotgun range I've been to, they have a duck tower about 150 yards behind the clubhouse. It's surrounded by a fairly thick stand of tall trees, but a couple of the stations result in shooters shot trajectory going through the "hole" in the trees and raining down on the front porch of the clubhouse.
I've been standing there and gotten "hit" -- it actually feels no different than if you through a handful of coarse sand into the air and let it fall on you, actually less since you really only feel a small number of pellets because of dispersion.
Shooters are restricted to target loads of #7.5 shot or smaller, so its very light shot. So light that on their "hard" sporting clays course it's very difficult to hit the distant crossing and away clays in any wind. The #7.5 shot has so little inertia that it just gets blown off target.
Many pheasant hunters I've known have stories about getting hit with shot from people on the other side of a field or road hunting on roads adjacent to the field they were hunting on. It's like coarse sand, and pheasant hunting uses much heavier shot than target shot.
I might expect some cost reductions because the increased durability will lessen the amount of excess memories needed for remapping when cells go bad. And don't larger drives use NAND chips in parallel for speed? If you can simplify packaging by using a single chip you might cut costs there, too.
If its as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as they say it is, you might also expect enterprise adoption to increase, lowering the cost of NAND by cutting demand or resulting in more reliable NAND.
It's also hard to know what kind of process improvements may take place over time.
Either way, I think cheap, durable and fast-or-faster-than-flash storage is pretty exciting, so I guess I'm willing to be optimistic. Storage is so expensive and so relatively slow that something that pushes the envelope on speed and cost just seems to have a lot of potential.
It sure sounds like the outcome could be cheaper, faster, more reliable and possibly even denser storage. How about a 10 TB drive that can saturate a SAS link for the price of a consumer 1 TB SSD now? It sounds appealing to have 40 TB of home storage at performance levels that would make a $200k enterprise storage buyer jealous.
Or that makes for 240 TB enterprise san shelf for the price of an existing 10 TB flash/rust hybrid shelf at speeds that will melt 16 gig fiber channel?
And who knows what value fast/cheap storage would have in terms of software applications. Maybe it would enable machine learning in more of a real-time basis by enabling analysis of vast datasets on demand.
Let's assume that the general education requirements of most college educations (ie, some smattering of English literature & composition, arts, bit of a foreign language, social studies, etc) actually does result in those students coming out slightly more knowledgeable than if they would have had even an "advanced" kind of technical education.
It's a reach, I know, but let's say they are overall a little smarter (ie, learned some new analytical skills & strategies) and are better informed.
I wonder if we're actually better off from this. Not because people aren't smarter or better informed, but because they're only a little smarter and a little better informed and they overestimate how well they informed they are and how good their analytical skills are.
On a mass scale, I wonder how much our political divisiveness and partisanship is driven by a whole bunch of people, who think they're smarter and better informed than they really are, taking sides -- often quite stridently -- on issues they don't really know about and reaching conclusions they don't really have the analytical tools to reach.
Add in the fact that everyone is an Internet Expert on everything they can read in Wikipedia and you have this recipe for high-quality mass ignorance and confirmation bias trying to portray itself as an educated populace.
If we moved the overwhelming majority of these people into a more advanced and focused vocational education that left out the "well rounded" part, would our *actual* ignorance as opposed to overestimated wisdom make us less partisan? Or would we just be even more gullible, swayed by propaganda, etc?
It's too many laws. One doesn't fit, they'll find another.
And once they find one that fits well enough, than anything goes because resistance to enforcement of a law usually brings the full force of the law with it.
Are there vendors that actually support RAID across otherwise independent SANs?
Like if you had SANs A through F, each with a 10 TB volume and you used SAN controller Z (which has no disks of its own) to take those 10 TB volumes and turn them into a single (say RAID-6) volume.
I've done this for laughs with a NAS4Free implementation, using its iSCSI client to mount LUNs from 3-4 different storage devices and then combining those mounts into a RAID LUN which I then exported via ISCSI and used on a client.
It seems like an interesting idea, and put together right seems like it might offer some relatively interesting redundancy versus some of the replication and mirroring options I've seen vendors advertise.
There are some things that reasonably can be ascribed the quality of being a worthy candidate for ridicule.
Certainly the notion that a representative democracy would copyright its laws and attempt to control their distribution for profit or any other motive is worthy of ridicule.
AFAIK the motivation is almost always financial, usually in collusion with some big legal publisher who gets exclusive rights and kicks back to the state. But it's not hard to imagine some kind of conspiratorial intent to restrict information to protect the legal class or bury details.
About the only rationale that makes any sense is to try to maintain an official reference presentation. The state could actually format and print a small run of the code and annotations themselves, which anyone could copy, but that would probably be a non-trivial amount of overhead, so they outsource it to a publisher in exchange for exclusivity.
Fewer airlines, each hiding out in their fortified monopoly hub airports, means less gate competition and less gate competition means airports can probably charge less for gate access. It's probably even worse, because with fewer airlines overall a lot of airports worry about losing their hub status and probably charge even less to the big carrier left providing service or provide other accommodations which save the hub carrier money.
This revenue pinch causes them to turn to commercial providers to install and run their wifi networks or if they run their own, to charge for service.
Yeah. I mean, there should be, just purely from an economic perspective you should see evidence of this. So we started looking. And surprisingly enough, as I speak here today, in 2013, we have more bees in America than we did in 2007, before Colony Collapse Disorder was observed and named. There is virtually no effect--there has probably been some effect on the price of pollination services, but it's not dramatic. And it's probably only for almonds, the only early-season crop that is pollinated. Not for the other crops pollinated the rest of the year. And this is surprising, given all the discussions of CCD and honeybee health.
We've found there's been no effect of Colony Collapse Disorder on the prices of queens.
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I think you're right about Hillary's likability which partly explains why her policies seem to be an awkward attempt to be right, smart and popular all at the same time.
I think you underestimate her as a candidate, though. Depending on who runs against her, she may stand or fall based on her likability, but that assumes someone gets a fair chance to run against her. Politics isn't an equal access contest, and you can be damn sure her connections and decades spent raising money for the DNC have bought her the kinds of favors and brass-knuckled leverage that might dissuade potential challengers from making a run at her.
I think she got a little blindsided by Obama in 2008 but also was willing to cede to him for both semi-principled reasons involving party loyalty but also for strategic reasons knowing she could resurrect her campaign easily in the next go-round.
This is her last shot now, and I think she's willing -- and able -- to call in all her markers, twist every arm and squeeze every dollar she can to get into office. Lousy personality or not, nobody else in the Democratic party has the juice to challenge her, no matter how likable they may be.
Bernie Sanders is a side show, hitting all the progressive talking points but can never attract the donor dollars for that reason. It would be hilariously fun if he would take it just a little crazier and at least feint a touch of right-wing populism on guns or immigration (the latter I think he did recently with regard to immigration and wages). I think there's an awful lot of tea partiers who hate wall street but love their guns more who might find a little honest Yankee common sense appealing.
Trump is just a clown indulging his ego. He probably believes his own bullshit, too, but he's like a sports-loving millionaire who buys a pro team to indulge his ego. Trump is just spending money to promote Trump. I also think he's potentially dangerous -- you don't do what Trump did in NY business and real estate (with Trump's personality to boot) without some brains and a lot of balls. Trump is a survivor in a city of pretty heavy predators, from Wall St. to Gracie Mansion to the unions and the garbage and building trades. He's got a zillion dollars with no strings attached and if he's not afraid of the city, the Gambinos or pretty much anyone else.
I'd see this less as a chance to charge more than a means of charging less.
With all smartphones offering great real-time navigation, it's a lot harder to upsell an expensive nav package for most cars. Even cars without nav seem to have basically the same touch screen even if the nav software is turned off. It's just economies of scale in production and assembly.
I think makers are looking to both improve what they have and make it cheaper and/or standard. And considering the consortium that bought them, they're mostly in the market segment where they have to offer nav on everything but the stripped down model nobody wants. Offering better maps for less licensing cost merely helps them get a tech edge over competitors in the same market segment.
Even among otherwise less luxury marques, the in-cabin technology package is almost the differentiating feature set.
As much as I dislike the NY Times trend towards posting videos, it was interesting to see their review of the new Volvo XC90 with a 4 cylinder engine that's supercharged AND turbocharged. IIRC the review says its rated at nearly 300 HP.
It's a large and fairly heavy car, so I don't think combined mileage was more than 25 MPG but it's definitely an improvement over the 4.4L V8 (my S80 with the same engine gets about 17 combined).
The only thing I'd worry about is if they're extracting Fast and Furious style horsepower from 4 cylinder engines is that they'll get Fast and Furious levels of engine life.
Frankly, I don't think Tesla needs to play the bootlegger-and-baptist game with fuel economy regulations to be competitive with ICE carmakers, they just need to be price and performance competitive within their model segments. At the oligarch country club where I do some work, I've seen a lot more Teslas and a lot fewer new S550s and my guess is that most of the drivers don't give a shit about the fuel cost or environmental impact of what they drive. They want performance and look-at-me status, and if it gives them an environmental cachet with their daughters' bohemian ivy league friends, so much the better,
The bigger challenge will be providing a car the plebes find competitive at the $30k mark. For tofu-eating yoga types, this won't be hard. They would drive a Prius or a Fit anyway. It's the Honda Pilot or Santa Fe buyers they need to appeal to and provide a competitive alternative.
I heard an interview with a professor on the "concerned" side and he made some interesting points about AIs. The "non-risk" side of the debate seems soley focused on the strong, human-like AI while ignoring potential risks of weak AIs that are increasingly used for things like stock trading.
Another one was that potentially dangerous AI doesn't necessarily need full autonomy to do damage. A senior banker that gets analytics/reports from trading software may be the actual actor why the danger comes from assuming the machine generated advice is the right advice. It's not hard to assume that human could be misled into performing actions that have bad outcomes because it believes the advice was right or accurate.
I wonder, too, if its possible that there could be a meta-AI. That is,an AI that isn't a single/clustered system under the control of a common piece of software, but AIs whose effect is cumulative because their knowlege inputs and actions span a common environment and allow for a feedback loop among them. Stock trading is a great exmaple because you have a common market, each AI knows something about the other AIs positions in the market and they all know about the overall status in the market.
I also wonder if our obsession with strong, HAL9000-style AI appearances will mean we won't be able to recognize many potentially dangerous emergent AIs because they don't fit the image of a strong AI.
It sounds, though, like it requires the client to use an upstream proxy to make it work, otherwise the endpoints would need to be enabled for this, too.
Even in the SMB world, it's becoming common for clients to want multiple ISP connections. Usually this gets implemented within the firewall or with a link balancer device that allows for various failover or balancing schemes. Any one client TCP session stays on one link, though, so two 10Mbps links never delivers 20 Mbps to any one TCP session.
I'm not sure this would be that much of a benefit on a phone, since most are single-app focused and most apps rely on a single stream, which is I guess why they use multipath TCP.
Do they erode fairly quickly, requiring continuous replenishment of their fill or can they build them with good long-term stability?
Doesn't sound like a porn plague, it sounds like puberty.
12-13 year olds going through puberty, their hormones turned up to 11, obsessed with sex in some manner or other? Unsure of feelings they have about sex, worried they think about it too much (or not enough), all the anxieties of youth and social/sexual roles?
This is somehow new and driven by online porn?
When I was that age we were obsessed with porn, too. Everybody knew whose dad had a skin mag, some had their own secret stash. My friend and I on our way to junior high in 1978 found 3 porno mags in the street. Two were issues of Hustler and one was called "Double Cunt Fucker", a hardcore mag that had penetration, a 3-way and jiz shots. Probably average for what's online.
The problem with porn is that it's only appealing because society can't get a grip on sexuality.
Perhaps competitive prices coupled with perceived quality (and good experience on other platforms) led to these drives being selected by more knowledgeable or performance oriented people.
These drives then got pushed harder or in ways more likely to expose the bugs, leading to a perception that they were unreliable under Linux.
All the HVAC techs I've ever talked to have told me that it's better to have the compressor run continuously than it is to short cycle it.
I had new AC put in about 10 years ago and if cleaning the A coil is something that's supposed to get done, they sure don't do the sheet metal like its something that's supposed to be done.
My A coil failed (I think they used a non-R134a coil) after two years and the guy had to do a lot of sheet metal surgery to get the new coil in.
It'd be interesting to know what Sharp plans for the power input. I would suspect the market starts to shrink dramatically for input voltages over 48V because pretty much all battery arrays are 48V or lower and AFAIK (which isn't very far) only the newest solar installs run at high DC voltages.
I'd guess that this would be a 24-48V system (highest common DC voltage in battery arrays) and lets say you have 6 hours runtime after dark (pure battery load), you're burning 4000 watt hours of power or 80+ amps @ 48V and 160+ amps at 24v.
The daily use PowerWall is only 7kw and I'd guess a summer of that kind of use would put a serious dent in its lifespan.
The only thing I can think of is that the Sharp DC A/C is designed for sucking direct from larger solar panel installs during the sunny days and really isn't practical to use for night cooling without some kind of other prime energy source (generator, grid, etc).
Is this not just a change in power input but a substantially more energy efficient air conditioner, too?
I've seen small A/C systems for cars and marine applications that can run off DC power, but they're usually pretty small which helps cut the overall power consumption. In marine applications they also have the advantage of being able to use sea water to move the heat versus a fan and coils in open air.
One of Sharp's smallest split system units has 8500 BTU of cooling with an EER of 13 which is roughly 650 watts. That's about 14 amps @ 48v, 27 @ 24, and a battery sucking 54 amps at 12v (run with welding cable).
8500 BTU might cool a room reasonably well, but its not going to provide whole-house cooling, either, and would require a pretty large battery array to run off battery. It might make sense for some kind of supplemental cooling setup where it ran direct off solar panels.
....what they're watching on TV in those amateur porn movies.
Honestly, I don't know how they can go at it like that with the TV droning on in the background. It makes me nuts that I can't tell what they're watching, too.
Whaddya bet that the variation in video formats got left in as some kind of poor DRM to act as a last-chance method to stop people from viewing videos from other regions?
because in Murica we are incapable of having reasonable discussion regarding guns.
"Reasonable discussion" usually just means "my ideas are reasonable, and yours aren't, and as long as you're disagreeing with my ideas, you're being unreasonable."
At a shotgun range I've been to, they have a duck tower about 150 yards behind the clubhouse. It's surrounded by a fairly thick stand of tall trees, but a couple of the stations result in shooters shot trajectory going through the "hole" in the trees and raining down on the front porch of the clubhouse.
I've been standing there and gotten "hit" -- it actually feels no different than if you through a handful of coarse sand into the air and let it fall on you, actually less since you really only feel a small number of pellets because of dispersion.
Shooters are restricted to target loads of #7.5 shot or smaller, so its very light shot. So light that on their "hard" sporting clays course it's very difficult to hit the distant crossing and away clays in any wind. The #7.5 shot has so little inertia that it just gets blown off target.
Many pheasant hunters I've known have stories about getting hit with shot from people on the other side of a field or road hunting on roads adjacent to the field they were hunting on. It's like coarse sand, and pheasant hunting uses much heavier shot than target shot.
I might expect some cost reductions because the increased durability will lessen the amount of excess memories needed for remapping when cells go bad. And don't larger drives use NAND chips in parallel for speed? If you can simplify packaging by using a single chip you might cut costs there, too.
If its as supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as they say it is, you might also expect enterprise adoption to increase, lowering the cost of NAND by cutting demand or resulting in more reliable NAND.
It's also hard to know what kind of process improvements may take place over time.
Either way, I think cheap, durable and fast-or-faster-than-flash storage is pretty exciting, so I guess I'm willing to be optimistic. Storage is so expensive and so relatively slow that something that pushes the envelope on speed and cost just seems to have a lot of potential.
It sure sounds like the outcome could be cheaper, faster, more reliable and possibly even denser storage. How about a 10 TB drive that can saturate a SAS link for the price of a consumer 1 TB SSD now? It sounds appealing to have 40 TB of home storage at performance levels that would make a $200k enterprise storage buyer jealous.
Or that makes for 240 TB enterprise san shelf for the price of an existing 10 TB flash/rust hybrid shelf at speeds that will melt 16 gig fiber channel?
And who knows what value fast/cheap storage would have in terms of software applications. Maybe it would enable machine learning in more of a real-time basis by enabling analysis of vast datasets on demand.
Let's assume that the general education requirements of most college educations (ie, some smattering of English literature & composition, arts, bit of a foreign language, social studies, etc) actually does result in those students coming out slightly more knowledgeable than if they would have had even an "advanced" kind of technical education.
It's a reach, I know, but let's say they are overall a little smarter (ie, learned some new analytical skills & strategies) and are better informed.
I wonder if we're actually better off from this. Not because people aren't smarter or better informed, but because they're only a little smarter and a little better informed and they overestimate how well they informed they are and how good their analytical skills are.
On a mass scale, I wonder how much our political divisiveness and partisanship is driven by a whole bunch of people, who think they're smarter and better informed than they really are, taking sides -- often quite stridently -- on issues they don't really know about and reaching conclusions they don't really have the analytical tools to reach.
Add in the fact that everyone is an Internet Expert on everything they can read in Wikipedia and you have this recipe for high-quality mass ignorance and confirmation bias trying to portray itself as an educated populace.
If we moved the overwhelming majority of these people into a more advanced and focused vocational education that left out the "well rounded" part, would our *actual* ignorance as opposed to overestimated wisdom make us less partisan? Or would we just be even more gullible, swayed by propaganda, etc?
It's too many laws. One doesn't fit, they'll find another.
And once they find one that fits well enough, than anything goes because resistance to enforcement of a law usually brings the full force of the law with it.
I'm kind of wondering where they would all go.
If each panel was a square meter, that's 193 square miles of solar panels.
Are there vendors that actually support RAID across otherwise independent SANs?
Like if you had SANs A through F, each with a 10 TB volume and you used SAN controller Z (which has no disks of its own) to take those 10 TB volumes and turn them into a single (say RAID-6) volume.
I've done this for laughs with a NAS4Free implementation, using its iSCSI client to mount LUNs from 3-4 different storage devices and then combining those mounts into a RAID LUN which I then exported via ISCSI and used on a client.
It seems like an interesting idea, and put together right seems like it might offer some relatively interesting redundancy versus some of the replication and mirroring options I've seen vendors advertise.
There are some things that reasonably can be ascribed the quality of being a worthy candidate for ridicule.
Certainly the notion that a representative democracy would copyright its laws and attempt to control their distribution for profit or any other motive is worthy of ridicule.
AFAIK the motivation is almost always financial, usually in collusion with some big legal publisher who gets exclusive rights and kicks back to the state. But it's not hard to imagine some kind of conspiratorial intent to restrict information to protect the legal class or bury details.
About the only rationale that makes any sense is to try to maintain an official reference presentation. The state could actually format and print a small run of the code and annotations themselves, which anyone could copy, but that would probably be a non-trivial amount of overhead, so they outsource it to a publisher in exchange for exclusivity.
You're forgetting more functional reasons -- like pain relief?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if more than a few long-time lab rats ended up with orthopedic issues from decades of standing in lab environments.
It's not a stretch from that to morphine synthesis to treat back pain.
I blame airline consolidation.
Fewer airlines, each hiding out in their fortified monopoly hub airports, means less gate competition and less gate competition means airports can probably charge less for gate access. It's probably even worse, because with fewer airlines overall a lot of airports worry about losing their hub status and probably charge even less to the big carrier left providing service or provide other accommodations which save the hub carrier money.
This revenue pinch causes them to turn to commercial providers to install and run their wifi networks or if they run their own, to charge for service.
Flying sucks.
An economist who studies the commercial pollination market hasn't seen any real impact from the bee crisis.
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